The whole video is from somebody who thinks like a very traditional old-space engineer who seems to think what NASA is doing, is just badly executing Apollo. Th

The whole video is from somebody who thinks like a very traditional old-space engineer who seems to think what NASA is doing, is just badly executing Apollo. They is not what they are doing and not what they are trying to do. While some of his criticism are fair, he also misses the larger picture and tells the whole story in only a single direction. The timeline he doesn't like is a known fake timeline that everybody from the beginning new wasn't gone happen, it was just politics. What he fails to actually do is compare and accurately assess the good and bad of different approaches. He basically picks everything good about Apollo and ignores all the negatives, and then does the opposite to the current program. There is simply a reality of how space politics happens, he acts in his analysis like NASA can just design whatever plan they want, like the could during Apollo, this just isn't the case. Unless you understand he politics behind the current program, and how it was possible, you will not understand its technical design. And I think his solutions aren't that insightful either. > The Space Shuttle was also ruined by military requirements that never materialized. This is a myth NASA likes to tell. NASA is a perfect glorious organization who never makes a mistake and therefore all problem are the fault of outsiders. Shuttle primary issues are not because of DoD requirements. Even without those, design they had to adopt was very cost constrained and was already highly sub-optimal. To get enough money they went to DoD and that added $ but it also added more constraints. So the straight forward Perfect Shuttle -> DoD -> Bad Shuttle isn't really the case. And anyway it wasn't actually primarily DoD, it was people who advocated for the DoD in the Whitehouse.